Alexander Dubcek, the government official turned hero of the Prague Spring uprising of 1968, once said, “You can crush the flowers, but you can’t stop the spring.” As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more regularly than we ever dream. — Rebecca Solnit
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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. — Aldous Huxley